Dear Jed, I'm always trying to make sharp distinctions, and the best. Megawatts are better than kilowatts and kilowatts are better than milliwatts. Perhaps each have their specific market however I have serious doubts for milliwatts- energy sources for the pacemakers of cardiopathic artists in the flea circus are not so necessary. But more important than the size of a source is that we can trust it and it gives at demand any time the desired number of mega-, kilo- or milli-watts. If not, then it cannot be called and energy source.
The Violante et al paper is really good, it is about fine tuning of metallurgy and morphology- but reproducibility is under 20%. The last sentence of the paper: *"By applying the scientific method future work should be oriented* *towards the definition of the effect rather than its demonstration".* Very enigmatic. Violante is a great scientist, inter alia he has created the wonderful cathode 64 of Energetics. However this had to be re-created and he has to find out how to create it any time. It has something to do with the air poisoning effect- the cathode was covered with a very thin layer of silicon oil by some accident. Old story, we need new stories. Peter On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I have just published: >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/08/why-pd-d-lenr-will-never-work.html >> > > I think you are making distinctions that do not exist in nature. Cold > fusion is cold fusion. The smallest Pd-D effect is probably the same as > what Rossi observes. Research into milliwatt-level effects is just as > likely to answer important questions and reveal the mechanism as Rossi's > kilowatt-level reactions are. The history of science bears this out. > > The only reason kilowatt-level reactions are better is because they > encourage people to think the reaction might become a practical source of > energy, so they attract funding. > > Here is an example of materials science done with the small reactions. > This could eventually be as fruitful as anything Rossi is doing: > > > https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/36833/ExcessPowerDuringElectrochemical.pdf > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
